Sponsor a Newark Kid for Summer Camp
Sponsorship for a whole summer for one child is possible through a tax-deductible $250 donation. Please consider sponsoring a kid at Safe Haven—the program there is amazing, and I know that Danny and Kim Iverson are some of the most hardworking people in Newark. Donations can be [...]
Tonight: Hairspray at Branch Brook Park
Movies Under the Stars kicks off tonight in Branch Brook Park as a part of the Newark Super Summer program. Head up to the Ballentine Gates for an evening of face painting, music and fun.
Tonight’s feature—Hairspray, starring Newark-native Queen Latifah—will kick off just after sundown, around 8:45pm.
Please join [...]
New ‘Electric Company’ diner is in Newark
Sesame Street Workshop, whose podcast my 16-month-old absolutely adores, will be filming a portion of its revived Electric Company series on a set in Downtown Newark.
While streetscapes and other segments will be shot in New York City, one can’t help but feel a little pride that comes with [...]
The Electric Company
This in from a City Hall press advisory:
Mayor Booker will speak at a press conference to announce that the production of the first season of Sesame Workshop’s “The Electric Company,” has begun in Newark.
The famed educational show is being revived, and will be filmed in Newark, using Newark schoolchildren.
Very cool. Stay tuned [...]
Mini-festivals kick off TODAY at recreation centers
Free mini-festivals will be open to residents and their children at the rec centers around the city. Click through to find the nearest one in your neighborhood.
The festival will be held on [...] Wednesday, July 2, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Children of all ages can enjoy [...]
Early Saturday morning, my 11-year-old son and I rode our bicycles in the middle of Market Street, once the most automobile-congested street in the country. Of course, we could not do it without over a hundred fellow Newarkers, who joined the Brick City Bike Tour.
“That’s how it feels in a city without cars,” my [...]
Departing Newark school chief always put kids first
The Ledger considers the legacy that Newark schools superintendent Marion Bolden will leave after her departure from the post later this year.
She also is proud of the district’s graduation rate, and decries critics who challenge its legitimacy. Nearly 52 percent of high school students received diplomas in 1999. [...]
An even playing field for Newark
A new $24 million sports complex will be built to replace the crumbling and partially condemned Schools Stadium, which has sat along Bloomfield Avenue since the early 1900s. Two baseball/softball fields, concession stands, locker rooms, and a football/soccer turf field will be built.
The project will be paid for [...]
Feds give struggling N.J. schools poor marks on tutoring, transfers
One of the key tenants of No Child Left Behind is to provide options for children who are in failing school systems: either they are entitled to receive tutoring, or they should be allowed to transfer to another district.
Neither of these are happening effectively [...]
Corzine presses for statewide schools construction funds in the Ironbound
Gov. Jon Corzine stood with Assemblyman Albert Coutinho (D-Newark), Assemblywoman L. Grace Spencer (D-Newark) and other lawmakers in the East Ward today and promised to back legislation to pay for new urban schools construction.
“We need action before June 30th, so that we can fulfill our Constitutional [...]
